* It’s been a week, but on the evening after I got a tooth pulled out my whole face felt that I was just involved in a bar fight, it was a very particular kind of pain. By today the stitches have already fell off (couldn’t stop playing with my tongue in the gap between the teeth).

* Politics. Politicians. Three branches of government. Promises of change derailed by extremist republican assholes (yeah, congress and the senate has the most concentration of assholes per square feet).  And very scary republican presidential candidates: a fat evil vampire from texas and an orange egomaniac with a big mouth.

* From Colombia (and from most neighboring countries) there are commercial flights into Cuba, but not from the US. President Obama visited Cuba last weekend (last US president to do so was Calvin Coolidge back in 1928). Time to update the history books.